Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... also known as the Omega Nebula or Swan ... [+] Nebula, a stellar nursery located ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf reported that the Andromeda nebula, also called M31, was nearly a million light ...

(More on the Eagle Nebula below.) Where reflection nebulae ... because they're just huge clouds of cold dust blotting out ...

The Godzilla Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Sagittarius that was imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission ...

The footage, captured by the Hubble telescope, highlights the Tarantula Nebula. This fascinating region lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. A Star-Forming ...

a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf reported that the Andromeda nebula, also called M31, was nearly a million light years away – too remote to be a part of the Milky Way.